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[quote=Anonymous]Contact in soccer ranges severity from Sunday afternoon patsies to full speed contact without football pads or helmets.

I find soccer in this area to be very socially hierarchical.  There are those players they will protect at practice, but there are those that are relegated to playing defense on scout squads which don't seem to get much protection.  My sense that this is how it works in Latin American countries, they beat up on the scout teams considerably.

There is also an awkward phase when where parents and coaches are encouraging the players to be aggressive psychopaths, but the kids don't have control over their bodies, understanding of the rules, and the few mechanisms there are in the game to regulate don't mean much.  EG penalty kicks/drop kicks aren't meaningful.  Soccer has a system of laws and severity (it's not like basketball where infractions are called on technical details).  Also, unlike football, penalties are declined by default, and the ref gets to decide when the penalty is severe enough and if there is any benefit to award, and somehow all the coaches' kids know where an when they can get away with fouls without penalty...

The awkward phase is particularly acute when they start to have goalies and the kids.  I've seen kids try to kick the ball out of others' hands while they are holding it.  I've seen professional coaches having kids in goal without gloves and the kids hands getting kicked.  They seemed to think nothing was wrong.  My kids would have been goalie material; I opted out with my daughter about third grade.  I'm not even going to bother with my son.  We'll do t-ball until it's time for basketball.

People have died in and around the goal.  Knees/Kicks to the head.  Soccer is mostly fine, but when it's bad it's very bad.  Oh a red card my petute.[/quote]

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